Re: Former AppleII user...

[jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes)]

In article <98.UUL1.3#25315@liberty.com>, Chance <chance@liberty.com> wrote:

[...]
>Then one day, I visited a friends' house. This friend had a 80486
>running at 50 Mhz. He was using PageMaker and was able to reformat a
>page or print almost instantaneously. Naturally, I investigated and
>found that hard drives, memory, etc. were dirt cheap. For example, I
>purchased a 340MB hard drive for $385. I just peeked in an old InciderA+
>and found a 200MB hard drive for $749.95. I could purchase 680MB worth
>of disk space for that price!
>
>I then concluded that the AppleIIgs was truly dead. I sold it, for a
>huge loss I might add, and purchased a 80486 66Mhz computer. Since then,
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>I have increased my work load and my productivity. There are those that
[...]
>I'm sure there will be replies calling me even more names, saying that I
>"jumped on the bandwagon", that I'm a "traitor", etc. The bottom line

No, I'd just call you "stupid".  Don't you know that you can use any SCSI
and practically any IDE drive with the appropriate controller card?

You say you sold your IIgs for a "huge loss".  That's dumb.  If and when
I require the power that a nice 486/66 system would give me (and I'm
certainly not going to deny that there are many things which, due to
either lack of software or underpowered architecture the IIgs cannot
easily/effectively do), I will buy such a system for my work needs and
hang on to the GS for fun.  Why sell it if you're not going to get a decent
return on your investment?  Why not keep it and have fun networking your
machines, for example?

>here is that I could no longer justify spending a pile of money on
>something that I could get elsewhere for less. And the less expensive
>hardware outperforms the more expensive!!!

So, don't spend more money on it!  Is that a no-brainer or what?

>Unfortunately, I am still very close to the AppleII community and would
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>damage some by identifying myself here. Therefore, I shall remain
>anonymous.

It doesn't sound like you want to be 'very close to the Apple II community'.
Why bother with anonymity?
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